Mira Markström (born January 30, 2005) is a Swedish

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and member of the Swedish national under-18 ice hockey team, currently playing on a junior contract with HV71 Dam of the

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(SDHL). She also plays

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with

Jönköpings IK Jönköpings IK is a floorball club in Jönköping Jönköping (, ) is a Urban areas in Sweden, city in southern Sweden with 112,766 inhabitants (2022). Jönköping is situated on the southern shore of Sweden's second largest lake, Vättern, ...

. On 21 April 2023, Mira Markström announced her retirement from ice hockey while continuing playing floorball.

Playing career

Markström began playing ice hockey at the age of four, and played on boys' teams in her home town of Jönköping until she was 15. She made her SDHL debut with HV71 in the 2019–20 season, picking up three assists in 20 games. She added another assist in six playoff games as the club made it to the championship finals against

Luleå HF/MSSK Luleå Hockey/MSSK are a semi-professional ice hockey team in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). They play in Luleå, a port city in northeastern Sweden, at Coop Norrbotten Arena. The team is the most successful in SDHL history, having b ...

before the season was cancelled due to the

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. In 2019, she scored the first goal in the first-ever girls

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tournament. It only took her 11 games to surpass her rookie production in her second season, having scored 4 points in the first 11 games of the

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, including her first professional goal.

International play

A an ice hockey player, she represented Sweden at the

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, picking up one assist in five games as Sweden finished in fifth. She also represented

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at the

2022 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship The 2022 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship was the 14th IIHF U18 Women's World Championship in ice hockey. On December 24, 2021, the tournament was cancelled for the second year in a row by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) due t ...

. As a floorball player, she represented Team Sweden U19 during a Euro Floorball Tour competition in

Uppsala Uppsala ( ; ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the capital of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Loc ...

in late October 2022.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Markström, Mira 2005 births Living people Ice hockey people from Jönköping Swedish women's ice hockey defencemen Swedish floorball players HV71 (women) players 21st-century Swedish sportswomen